Labor will move on Monday to overturn the Abbott government’s changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) laws, after forcing the government to introduce them into ­Parliament on Thursday.

The government had been delaying the introduction of its changes into Parliament, aware that they faced possible defeat in the Senate, with Labor, the Greens, the Palmer United Party and some independents expressing concerns about their impact.

Finance Minister
Mathias Cormann
said earlier in the week the government was hoping to persuade some of the Senate crossbenchers to support the changes, which were being ­introduced as regulations rather than legislation.

Regulations can be disallowed by the Senate but only once they have been tabled in Parliament.

With the Coalition proving reluctant, Labor Senator
Sam Dastyari
had tried unsuccessfully earlier in the week to table the published regulations.

On Thursday afternoon, Senator Dastyari successfully moved for the government to produce the regulations, with the support of the Palmer United Party, the Greens, and crossbench senators
Nick Xenophon
,
John Madigan
and
Ricky Muir
.

Labor then moved to have Senator Dastyari table the documents himself.

Shortly afterwards, the government also tabled them.

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It is understood Labor was in discussions with Palmer United Party Senate leader,
Glenn Lazarus
, over whether he would move the notice of motion to ­disallow the regulations in the Senate next Monday.